Sugar dispenser



Jan. 9, 1934. A. AsPLUNb 1,943,199

SUGAR DI SPENSER Filed June 8, 1932 El Enl.

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Patented Jan. 9, 1934 y f UNITED STATES PATENT SUGAR DISPENSER August Asplund, San Francisco, Calif.

Application June 8, 1932. Serial No. 616,140

3 Claims. (Cl. 221-98) This invention relates to improvements in sugar are formed upon the cap 8 so that a pointer 24 dispensers. may indicate the position of the various measur- The principal object of the invention is to proing chambers when the rod 13 is turned through duce a dispenser wherein a predetermined quanthe medium of the nut 26. A filling cap is shown tity of sugar may be dispensed at each actuation at 27 through which the container 5 may be lled. 60

thereof. The operation oi my device is as followsr A further object is to pro-duce a device which is Assuming that the parts are assembled as economical to manufacture. shown in Fig. 1, the cap 27 is removed and a. A still further object is to produce a device funnel or other similar means is employed for lo which may be easily cleaned. lling the container 5 with sugar. This sugar 65 Other objects and advantages will be apparwill flow through the openings 23 and into the ent during the course of the following description. compartments 16, 17 or 18, as the case may be, In the accompanying drawing forming a part Standing in alignment with the openings 23. By of this specification and in which like numerals now turning the'pointer 24 to the desired numare employed to designate like parts throughout ber of spoonfuls of sugar wished, the compartment 70 the same, containing that quantity will be brought beneath Fig. l is a side elevation of my device showing the port 11 and cut off from the perforations 23, a portion thereof broken away to disclose the inthe result being that by inverting the container,

terior thereof, the sugar will be dispensed :from the compart- 20 Fig. 2 is a top plan view of Fig. 1, ment desired. Assuming that it is the compart- 75 Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view taken on the ment 18, then the sugar will pass through the line 3-3 of Fig. 1, port 22 and ports 11, tube 7 and port 12. Should Fig. 4 is a vertical cross section, it be the compartment 17 the sugar will pass Fig. 5 is a top plan View of the measuring rotor, through the port 21, port 11, tube 7 and port 12. and It will thus be seen that I have produced a de- 80 Fig. 6 is a bottom plan View of the dispensing vice which will accomplish all the objects above tube 7. set forth.

Sugar is often placed upon the table in a bowl, It is to be understood that the form of my inwith the result that people often use a soiled or vention herewith shown and described is to be so wet spoon and consequently the sugar becomes taken as a preferred example of the same and contaminated with food lumps and therefore does that various changes relative to the material, not present a pleasing appearance. In the desize, shape and arrangement of parts may be revice herein disclosed sugar is entirely sealed sorted to without departing from the spirit o1' against outside contamination. In said device the invention or the scope of the subjwogined means is provided whereby a denite quantity of claims.

sugar may be dispensed at a single operation, as Having thus described my invention, I claim:- for instance, one teaspoonful, two teaspoonfuls, 1. In a device of the character described, a or three teaspoonfuls, as the case may be. container, a housing positioned in said container,

In the accompanying drawing wherein for the rotatable compartments positioned in said housc purpose of illustration is shown a preferred eming, a tube extending from said housing and bodiment of my invention, the numeral 5 desigcommunicating with the apertured cover of said nates a container preferably a glass jar having a container, said compartments having ports cover 5, which cover has secured thereto a tube 7 formed therein, said housing having a port formed havingathreaded cap 8. This tube extends downtherein, and .means for successively rotating wardly into the container 5 and has a housing 9 said compartments to align the respective ports 100 attached to its lower extremity. This housing of said cover and said housing with one of the closes the bottom of the tube 7 with the excepports of said compartments.

tion of a port 11, which corresponds to a similar 2. In a device of the character described, a

portion-12 formed in the cap 8. A shaft 13 eX- container, a cover secured to said container, a

tends through the cap 8 and into the housing 9 tube secured to said cover and extending into 10.5

and has connected thereto a measuring rotor 14 said container, a cap secured to said tube, a port which have a plurality of chambers 16, 17 and formed in said cap, a housing secured to the lower 18, which chambers are each provided with a extremity of said tube, a port formed in said port 19, 2l and 22, respectively. One side of the housing and in alignment with the port in said housing 9 is perforated as shown at 23. Indicia cap, a rotatable member positioned insaid hous- 110 housing and in alignment with the port in said cap, a rotatable member positioned in said housing, said rotatable member having compartments, a port formed in each of said compartments, means for successively moving each of said ports in said compartments into alignment with the port in said housing, said means including a rod extending through said cap and said tube, and being secured to said rotatable member.

AUGUST ASPLUND. 

